America's Fascist Playbook Is Wreaking Havoc around the World | The Walrus
No famine has occurred in a functioning democracy with a free press because democratic governments face elections, criticism, and incentives to prevent catastrophes.
Erik Thorbecke, economist with global impact, dies at 97 | Cornell Chronicle
Erik Thorbecke helped create the FGT poverty index, shaping modern development economics through decades of research on poverty, nutrition, and justice.
The Daily Dirt: Why new apartments will be larger, costlier
New York's multifamily tax break 485x incentivizes developers to build fewer, larger, more expensive apartments instead of more affordable units by triggering higher wage scales at specific unit thresholds.
And now, another big tax cut for the developers and speculators in SF - 48 hills
San Francisco's proposed transfer tax cut on high-end property sales would reduce affordable housing funding without addressing the actual barrier to housing construction: economic feasibility of building itself.